Well Blair and I had just gotten back from Hawaii and picked up the kids and made it back to Wyoming. Well the next night Madison had gone in her room to get her pajamas and we heard a thud and then crying from her. She comes running into the kitchen and cries that she fell off the ladder from their new bunkbed they had just gotten a month ago. She had a bruise on her knee and was holding her right arm a bit and crying but after a while she settled down so we thought she was fine. After putting her to bed that night she woke up an hour later just crying and holding her right wrist. We put her in bed with us and debated on whether or not an E.R. visit was needed. I decided to wait until morning and see how she does. She finally settled down and went to sleep and then woke up and wanted to go back to her own bed. The next day she was holding her right wrist a lot and I noticed she wouldn't use it at all and when I tried pushing on it a little she would pull away and say ouch. I finally called the doctors office and got her in within a few hours. The doctor had us go and get an x-ray and sure enough she had suffered a buckle fracture to her right wrist. So the doctor put her arm in a splint for a few days and then we went back and had it casted.
I believe these pictures were taken that night after she had gotten the cast put on. She chose a purple cast and was pretty excited to show people. She had to wear it for 4 weeks.
Funny story about her cast. About a week after getting it on it was Super-bowl weekend and we had a co-worker of Blair's over and his family. Well, while eating some snacks and visiting, Madison jumped down from the table and started running to the bathroom but didn't quite make it and puked all over the floor, herself, and her cast! I was thinking "Really, you have 3 more weeks with this on and now it's really going to stink, how do you get puke out of a cast!" I took a wet wash cloth with some soap and wiped it off the best I could but it still stunk terribly. I read that you could take some baking soda and a toothbrush and scrub it on the cast to help the smell. So I tried that and after getting done Blair pointed out that I had accidently grabbed the baking powder instead. Ugh! Well either way it still stunk but after a few days the smell went away.
Well here we are finally getting her cast off on February 21.
She was so brave and didn't even flinch when the doctor was sawing thru her cast.
She was pretty excited to see her arm again and went home that day and was using her arm and hand like nothing had happened.
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